The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1887-11-30

were arrested at Boston on the Dist for
larceny of $l50,000 of stock of the Bruns-
wick Land Improvement and Colonization
Company of Georgia from A. J. Rogers,
its president. The theft was committed
at the Old Colony depot in Boston, No
vember 4.
THE remains of w. ID Welch q travel
ing salesman for Chicago seed hs.nss,,
were taken to Waukegan, ILL.,, on the 20th.
Welcb had 9 one out duck hunting the day
before. Ta'ine snow-storm came up, and
not returning a searching party was
formed, and his body was found in the
boat, frozen stiff, about two hundred yards
from the shore.
HENRY V. LESLIE and James A. J.. vii
son, the cmbezzling secretary and treas
urer of the Delaware & Chesapeake Canal
Company, pleaded guilty in the Criminal
Court at Philadelphia, on the 21st, to con-
spiracy to cheat and defraud that com
pany of a sum aggregating $4,000 and
were sentenced to eight and six years re-
spectively in the Eastern pententiary.
AN unknown schooner sunk off Keno
sha, Wis, and probably all on board are
lost.
GILBERT CARTER, aged seventy.seven
years, his wife, an invalid about the same
age, and Mrs. John Pepper, housekeeper,
were asphyxia5ed in their sleeping-rooms
at Hudson, N. ", by gas from a coal
stove, on the night OF the 2lst. They
were still alive at last accounts, but un-
conscious, and with only slight hopes of
their recovery.
A TERRIBLE explosion of atlas powder
occurred in Hyde Park, Pa, on the 22d.
The contractor in charge of the con-
struction of the main sewer in that part
of the city intrusted the thawing out of
the powder to some Hungarians and the
result was as stated. Two men were seri-
ously cut. Hundreds of windows were
demolished and goods in several stores
were ruined.
A RUSSIAN marine disaster occurred
on the a4th in which thirtyfve lives are
reported to have been lost.
FIRE destroyed the steamer Charles p.
Choutenu with a cargo OF cotton on the
Lower Mississippi on the 23d Two lives
We're lost.
A BATTLE between striking plantation
hands and citizens in Louisiana resulted
in the loss of many lives.
FIVE THOUSAND persons attended the
funeral, on the 18th, of the victims of the
w. A. Scholten disaster, at Dover. There
was general suspension of business.
The Queen has sent a message Of SYM
pathy to the bereaved families.
DISPUTE, terminating with fatal s'gun
plays" occurred between party of cow
boys at Billings, Mont.
AT Ravenna, o., on the 23d, Ju dge John
son overruled the motion for a new
trial in the case of "Blinkey" Morgan,
and sentenced the prisoner to be hanged
in the penitentiary at Columbus, March
16 1888.
CHARLES KITCHEN, a highly respected
citizen of New Hope, Bucks County, Pa,
was shot there on the morning of the 23d
by Harry L. Gettys, and expired in about
twenty minutes. Gettys gives as his rea
son for tie murder that Kitchen was the
destroyer of his home. Gettys is also
highly respected citizen, sober and in
dustrious.
A FIRE broke out near Portrero, in the
suburbs of San Francisco, on the 25th, and
destroyed two blocks of dwelling houses,
rendering over forty families homeless.
Loss estimated at $4,000.
S. G. f. INsLEY, aged thirty, and his
mother, aged sixtyfive, blew out the gas
upon retiring at the Howard House at
Newton, Kas., on the night of the oath.
They will probably die. They were 60
Kas
THE Memphis (Tenn.) police made i'm
portant arrests on the night Of the 25th in
the persons of w. ]. Neff, p. I. Conway,
J. II. johnson and John Ford, four river
pirates, who have committed many dep
relations between Cairo and Memphis.
Two freight trains on the Wheel ling
division of the Baltimore e. Ohio railroad
collided near Cochrane Mills, fifteen miles
from Pittsburgh, Pa, on the morning Of
the 25th. Both trains were completely
demolished and three men killed and five
others injured.
IT has been discovered that the late
Charles Albert Kebler, the Cincinnati at
torney who committed suicide, was driven
to the deed by the approaching revelation
of heavy forgeries committed by him in
the management of estates and of trust
funds committed to his care.
ANOTHER batch of alibi testimony was
introduced in the Coughln trial at Ra-
VIENNA, O., on the 18th. During the after
noon experts in penmanship were called
to prove that Coughlin wrote the names
on the register of the Metropolitan Hotel
at Elyria ON February 4, the day of the
Ravenna tragedy.
PATSY SHEA, young man of twenty
five years, who has been employed on the
Burlington g. Missouri road, at Lincoln,
Neb., for the last two months, was killed
on the morning of the 25th while attempt
ing to make coupling.
THE jury in the Scholten inquest at Do
yer, England, returned an opinion that the
collision was due TO an error on the part
of the officers of the Scholten, in trying to
cross the bows of the Rosa Mary without
making allowance for the strong tide
which was flowing.
AT an early hour ON the morning of the
25tb the Standard Theater at Sioux City,
Ia, was discovered to be on fire, and
shortly afterwards was reduced to ashes,
together with the entire wardrobes and
properties of the place.